【港你知】The 100 Greatest Hong Kong Films【Part 4】
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No.70 Once Upon a Time in China 黃飛鴻 (1991)
Dir Tsui Hark (Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Rosamund Kwan)
“Master Yim, win or lose, it’s just a game.”
Jet Li turned from Mainland wushu champion to international action star with Tsui’s nationalistic reinvention of the folk legend of Wong Fei-hung. Its climatic warehouse combat, partly on flopping ladders, is easily one of the best fight scenes of kung fu cinema.
* Did you know…
… Which Hong Kong film would rank Number 1 if it was compiled by Chow Yun-fat? “Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China,” the actor tells Time Out, before repeating it twice.
No.69 Come Drink with Me 大醉俠 (1966)
Dir King Hu (Cheng Pei-pei, Yueh Hua, Chen Hung-lieh)
“Better to be an honest beggar than a devil in monk’s clothing.”
Before the iconic director moved to Taiwan and shot Dragon Gate Inn (1967) and A Touch of Zen (1971) – indisputably two of the greatest martial arts films ever made – Hu refined the genre with this deliberately-paced quest for justice by Cheng’s female knight Golden Swallow and Yueh’s heroic swordsman Drunken Cat.
No.68 To Liv(e) 浮世戀曲 (1992)
Dir Evans Chan (Lindzay Chan, Josephine Koo, Anthony Wong Yiu-ming)
“We are not British subjects. We are only British objects.”
Starting out as a cinematic response to Liv Ullmann’s condemnation of our city’s deportation of 51 Vietnamese refugees in 1990, Chan’s impossibly intellectual post-Tiananmen essay-cum-melodrama offers everything from a Van Gogh ‘prank’ to a reciting of Invisible Cities. Last but not least: the otherAnthony Wong emotes.
No.67 After This Our Exile 父子 (2006)
Dir Patrick Tam (Aaron Kwok, Ng King-to, Charlie Young)
“Why? Why did you make me steal?”
Kwok won his second of two consecutive best actor awards at the Golden Horse with this exceptional comeback effort by Tam. Crisply edited and masterfully narrated, the Malaysia-set drama takes an unflinching look at a gambler’s destructive influence on – and unfathomable betrayal of – his young son (Ng).
No.66 Mr. Vampire 殭屍先生 (1985)
Dir Ricky Lau (Lam Ching-ying, Ricky Hui, Chin Siu-ho)
“A corpse becomes a jiang shi because its last breath fails to leave the body.”
A supernatural game-changer that started a franchise and set the rules for all things jiang shi, Lau’s uproarious horror comedy popularised the mythology of Chinese hopping vampires (commonly said to be corpses reanimated out of indignation) – if not also sticky rice, the most hated item of the undead.
No.65 Police Story 警察故事 (1985)
Dir Jackie Chan (Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung)
“There’re four witnesses last year who said the same thing as you. Guess what happened to them?”
Chan defied death – and incurred a variety of injuries – as a brave and truly athletic cop in this pinnacle of action choreography, whose death-defying stunts amaze from start (which sees the actor hang onto a speeding double-decker bus with an umbrella) to finish (with a glass-shattering, escalator-jumping climax).
No.64 he Butterfly Murders 蝶變 (1979)
Dir Tsui Hark (Lau Siu-Ming, Michelle Yim, Wong Shu-tong)
“Are there really killer butterflies in the world?”
The maverick director’s career-long schizophrenic sensibilities originated here: a breathtaking debut which encompasses everything from a wuxia writer-turned-detective as narrator, a medieval castle as the site of its locked room murder mystery, and millions of butterflies as its terrorisers. Hitchcock would have smiled with envy.
No.63 Love in a Puff 志明與春嬌 (2010)
Dir Pang Ho-cheung (Shawn Yu, Miriam Yeung)
“We don’t need to do everything in one night.”
From the hazy ambiance of its KTV lounge parties to its uncannily realistic portrayal of Cantonese banter’s amusing ways, Pang’s bittersweet rom-com about two chain-smoking would-be lovers looks reality square in the eye: while urban romances may be capricious, our city’s indoor smoking ban is permanent.
No.62 The Killer 喋血雙雄 (1989)
Dir John Woo (Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh)
“I’d like to have a name to remember you by.”
That church! Those white doves! The awesomely sappy Cantopop soundtrack! Arguably Woo’s most artistically accomplished film of the 1980s, this one-last-job epic plays like a perfect cross between Jean-Pierre Melville and Sam Peckinpah, deftly reversing Chow and Lee’s roles in City on Fire(1987) to thrust male bonding into high camp.
No.61 The Way of the Dragon 猛龍過江 (1972)
Dir Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris)
“You can find these wrecks in Kowloon City too.”
Chuck Norris may be able to slam a revolving door, but he’s still no match for Bruce Lee’s fearless country bumpkin – who is, however, afraid of naked Italian ladies. The Colosseum duel (and some hairy moments) aside, the kung fu star’s Rome-set directorial effort also surprises with its comedic touch.
To be continued.
Source:Time Out,Hong Kong
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